Michael Shelby wrote:
I downloaded drivers for my video card and it is a .run do I convert to
Which is what? nVidia?
a rpm file or get a installer, I read the read me file for the down load
but got lost, it said to install,
ATI and nVidia drivers are available in many forms. Some are free,
open-source drivers, but may not support all of the required
accelerations on all cards. Sometimes there are more than 1 open source
driver, which only serves to confuse the issue. ATI and nVidia also
provide their own closed source drivers for some video cards. They can
be provided via a .zip file, a .run installer file, or in some case,
some third party repositories (ATRPMs or RPMFusion) provide RPMs for
these drivers in various forms. I use RPMFusions drivers for my ATI
laptop and my nVidia desktop. YMMV, and depending on your video card,
may not need the proprietary drivers at all.
"The following packages must be installed in order for the CatalystTM Linux
Catalyst says its an ATI driver. Consider looking at the fglrx packages
from RPMFusion. Also, note that the open-source radeon driver may do
what you need. If your card is an ATI-HD card, maybe radeonhd will work
for you. The basic ati driver may give you 2D support, but not 3D
support. (Like I said, its very confusing.) I'm sure Kevin Kofler will
have more to say on this subject, as he seems to be more up-to-date on
the state of the free ATI drivers than I am.
driver to install and work properly:
• XFree86-Mesa-libGL
• libstdc++
• libgcc
• XFree86-libs
• fontconfig
• freetype
• zlib
• gcc
The Xinstall.sh script must be downloaded in binary mode, otherwise it
will not run correctly. If you get lots of "command not found" messages
when you try to run it, then it is most likely because the script was
not downloaded in binary mode. Some web browsers will not do this for
files of that name, so we also have a copy of it called
"|Xinstall.bin|", and most browsers should download that correctly. When
downloading it under this name, select "save as" on your browser, and
save the file under the name "|Xinstall.sh|"."
If you install via RPMs, all of your dependancies will be installed
along with the driver.
But I got up to downloading a script file but it took my to a page full
of code, do i need to copy and paste and turn into .exe? Sorry rusty at
linux, used it in school to learn java programming, should of watched
him dual boot all the cpu's in the class. If you can point me in the
right dir it would be appreciated.
I like to use RPMs whenever possible. Esp when someone else does the
hard work for me. B^)
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